The committee investigating the Capitol has urged the Justice Department to start legal proceedings against Trump. Something unprecedented and that represents an important step to take into account because although it is a symbolic decision, it can cause the Department of Justice to file criminal charges against the former American president.
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Because it is important? It is an unprecedented and historical event. The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol considers that Donald Trump committed four crimes to frustrate the result of the 2020 elections that gave victory to Joe Bidengiving rise to the wave of violence that broke out in the Capitol.
Unanimously, the nine members of the committee, seven Democrats and two Republicans, believe that there is more than enough evidence of Trump’s participation in this attack on parliamentary headquarters. The chairman of the commission has been emphatic stating that “Donald Trump sought to break the foundations of American democracy. He lost the 2020 elections and he knew it. But he chose to try to remain in office through a multi-part scheme to annul the results and block the transfer of power.
A decision that comes after a year and a half investigation, with the testimony of more than a thousand witnesses and the analysis of more than a million documents. Testimony and evidence that the committee accompanied at the hearing with a ten-minute video in which it presented all the accusations for which it urges the Department of Justice to indict the former president of the United States for insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the nation, false testimony and obstruction.
In an interview for Sexta Noticias, Pedro Rodriguez, professor of international relations at the ICAI-ICADE Pontifical University of Comillas, highlights above all the crime of insurrection. Because “under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, officials who have participated in an act of insurgency against the Constitution and government of the United States are disabled“.
- Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the committee, in his latest hearing stated that “the committee has developed significant evidence that President Trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of transfer of power under our Constitution. The president has a positive constitutional duty and primary to act, to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Nothing could be a greater betrayal of this duty than to help the insurrection against the constitutional order”.
- The vice president of the committee and Republican congresswoman, Liz Cheney, has concluded her speech by assuring that “all the presidents in our history have defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. January 6, 2021 was the first time an American president rejected his duty to transfer power peacefully to the next. Trump, you are unfit for any office.”
And meanwhile… The Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out a parallel investigation into Trump’s actions to support the idea of electoral fraud and not recognize Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential elections. An investigation that is already in its final stretch and that is also focused on the possible theft of official White House documents. And they are not the only processes that Trump has open. Earlier this month a New York court found the Trump Organization guilty of tax evasion.
- Pedro Rodríguez, professor of international relations at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI-ICADE, has pointed out that Donald Trump “is losing that reputation of invincible. He no longer has that ability to ensure positive results both for himself and for the game.”
What will happen next? All these accusations are having a direct impact on his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections and his desire to be re-elected president of the United States. Not only from public opinion but also from his party.
- As Pedro Rodríguez has pointed out, “senior officials of the Republican party, donors to the party, are accumulating a critical mass against the 45th president of the United States and this could force their political aspirations in one way or another.”
- Added to this are the poor results of the Republican representatives chosen by him in the mid-term elections, which do nothing more than reduce his candidacy’s capacity and leadership. The expert in international relations, Pedro Rodríguez, predicts that despite being “already a declared candidate for the next presidential elections, he could see his aspirations to return to the White House cut short.”
Source: Lasexta
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